Category: Civil Rights

Two early-morning radio show hosts in upstate New York have been fired for mocking people seeking gender reassignment surgery. The controversy began Wednesday, when Kimberly Ray and Barry Beck, hosts of “The Breakfast Buzz” on WBZA, were discussing a decision by the city of Rochester to cover city employees’ gender reassignment surgery in its health […]

MADISON, Wis. — Niger Innis, national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, considers the annual White Privilege Conference to be frivolous, irrelevant and a waste of taxpayer money. Not to mention the convention does nothing to address the real needs and concerns of struggling minorities, Innis told: Wisconsin Reporter. Still, Innis doesn’t have a problem […]

The: Trader Joe’s grocery chain: has withdrawn plans to build a store in the heart of a predominantly black neighborhood after a black leadership group fought the move. The: Portland Development Commission: was set to give the grocer a large discount on property that: had been vacant for years, pricing it at just over $500,000, down from an appraised value […]

Two Wisconsin residents are suing a town there for banning the display of the American flag and other signs on a highway overpass. The Thomas More Law Center, acting on behalf of: Nicholas Newman: and: Gregory Luce, filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the town of: Campbell, Wisc.,: for prohibiting citizens “from displaying the American flag and wearing t-shirts which […]

Any mayor who casually tosses around racial slurs like: “honky,” “cracker,” and “peckerwood” (all of which you hear on the first minute of the video) is a racist who doesn’t belong in office. As CBS 2’s Steve Langford reported Sunday, Monticello Mayor Gordon Jenkins was arrested on Nov. 16, on suspicion of drunken driving. …In a […]

So, Joe Wurzelbacher is being accused of racism. This probably does not shock you given that pretty much every conservative gets accused of racism these days for every reason imaginable including, but not limited to opposing Obamacare, opposing Obama or thinking the United States shouldn’t go bankrupt. However, in Joe’s case, even a few conservatives […]

There’s a shuffle underway in: Harlem: as a coalition of local church leaders attempt to edge out the: Rev. Al Sharpton: who they feel is too wrapped up in his celebrity and fame and neglecting the local black community.

There is an enormous racial double standard in this country. Everything white Americans say is hysterically examined for any sort of racial connotation while black Americans are given a free pass for openly expressing racist sentiments. How about setting the hypocrisy aside and applying the same standards to everyone? A bus driver still has her […]

It’s not racist to ask a question about race. But some people get a pass no matter how racist they are and it’s quite often that certain black people get away with it. “People in The Tea Party are racists…” What kind of statement is that? It’s one that not only goes unchallenged by the […]

At my son’s football game Friday night, I took notice of something special that no doubt happens all across this nation every day: Little kids — four, five, ten years old playing with each other on the sidelines, in the stands, on the playground, in the parking lot — and having a ball. What’s so […]

Jesse Jackson’s Trayvon Martin grandstanding isn’t going over well with Florida Governor, Rick Scott. Unlike a lot of other people in Jackson’s crosshairs, Scott doesn’t seem inclined to kiss Jackson’s behind and make nice. After spending the night at the state Capitol with protesters, the Rev. Jesse Jackson refused to comply with Gov. Rick Scott’s […]